Entries in gender (7)
Republicans On Racism: "Could You Use It In A Sentence Please?"
It’s officially an election year now (even though for politicians it has been 2010 since November 2008). And I’m there will plenty of baseless, inaccurate and flat-out nonsensical insults thrown around by both parties. (Here is where you should cringe if you ever referred to John Kerry as a “flip-flopper.” Go ahead, we all understand—the commercial said he voted for the war before he voted against it!) But the GOP is fast becoming the party that cried “Discrimination!”
We already had to give Sarah Palin a sexism tutorial, and now it appears the entire Republican Party needs a vocabulary lesson on the basics of racism. They are all super P.O.’ed at Harry Reid for saying that Obama was only electable because he was a “light-skinned” black person with none of that thurr negro talkin’ goin’ on—so mad that they want him resign his post and be thrown in prison for racism.
Because of Politics, Reid had to apologize to the world and most of all Barack Obama for basically pointing out that America is full of hypocrisy and racism. What he should have said is:
Because You're Not Worth It: New Mammogram Guidelines Say 'Just Don't Bother'
When I first visited Planned Parenthood to obtain birth control in high school I've heard from friends that even as a teenager, Planned Parenthood sends you home with one of those plastic thingies with helpful diagrams on how to feel for lumps in your boobs (see tata pics, above). You're supposed to hang it in your shower; we had one at our first college apartment but took it down because boys thought it was weird but I am not sexually active nor have I ever been Dad so I don't really know. The message was that breast cancer is one of those things that you should really catch early if at all possible. The new message, however, is that women don't even need to perform self-examinations, nor do they need regular mammograms until the age of 50:
A New Era Healthcare breasts communism down-there gender lemmings Women Are Basically Cancer: Babies, Vaginas Uninsurable
Everybody loves babies! They are the future! Am I right, or am I right?! WRONG. Insurance companies hate babies. They hate fat babies; they hate skinny babies. Most of all, they hate women, because women have babies.
As congress spins its wheels on a public option and Hilary Clinton sits in her office, all like "I told you this shit was harder than it looked," the insurance industry continues to equate having a vagina with having a pack-a-day habit. Being a woman, it turns out, is considered a pre-existing condition by some providers:
To Pee or Not To Pee?
For females, squatting to pee is almost always a horrible disaster. It’s physically awkward, plus it exposes your woman flower to less friendly, potentially rash-spreading plants (or just exposes your woman flower). You are more likely than not to end up with pee on your person or your clothing, if for no other reason than you are typically working with limited resources that don’t include toilet paper. Pregnancy tests and urine samples—both fairly stressful events already—usually require a serious post-pee hand washing (admit it). I even got my first and only Minor in Possession ticket while squatting behind a bush at tailgate. Ya know who didn’t get an MIP that day? The guy peeing next to me. The only difference? He was standing. (Also he was 21.)
Too address this issue, a slew of recent products offer biological females the chance of a lifetime: writing their name in the snow with pee! The P-Mate and the Whizzy are essentially cardboard funnels that you pee in to, while the Shenis is actually a hollow (fake) penis. At 12 inches, it can even give you an ego boost, although unlike the cardboard versions it does not seem to be disposable. Would you use a pee aid? Before you say “EW NO” think back to the time you had to crouch between cars and have people stand guard on either side of you, only to be too drunk to squat properly, and ended up peeing on your shoes. If that’s never happened to you, you need to get out more.
After the jump, check out some clutch videos of these devices in use! [Warning: these may be NSFW, depending on how much your boss sucks at life.]
Parties consumerism down-there gender potty talk Attention Ladies: 'New in Town' Looks Like A Waste Of Your Precious Few Brain Cells
I keep seeing these vomit inducing mini-trailers for New in Town, the latest flick to explore the question that has plagued humanity through the eons: Can regular vapid pretty girls be smart? All I see is high heels, split pants, a crash into a snowbank, and a blonde falling backward off of a porch. This slapstick crap looks as bad as Bride Wars, which, even though I haven't seen it, has got to be the biggest American embarrassment since Gitmo.
I haven't actually watched the lengthy preview I've done the service of sharing with you (above), because I don't want to, but the one that keeps running on teevee proclaims that New in Town is a cross between Legally Blonde and Sweet Home Alabama. Uhhh I don't think two Reese Witherspoon movies gives you a Renee Zellweger comedy. That's just basic Film Studies 101. What, like it's hard?
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International Transgender Day Of Visibility Is Invisible On The Interwebs
Hey, you! International community of trained professionals dedicated to writing about thingies that go on: How about writing stories about this instead of this? Don't you know that LL Cool J Sarah Palin is out? Ah, fuck it, just go read Meghan McCain's twitter; she posed for the "Dont' H8 On Us You H8ers, H8 Sux And It's The Worst, Boo H8" campaign," so she should pretty much have this covered.